I open all of my pressure cooker demos and classes making this dip because this recipe showcases how quickly and easily the stubborn eggplant (which takes, forever to become tender) can be prepared.
course: appetizer
All pressure cooker appetizers and antipasto’s. These recipes are great to serve before dinner, or just for a snack.
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Super-quick-pickled Green Peppers !
The pressure cooker pickles chilies in 60 seconds - it infuses the seasonings and spices evenly while bringing out their heat. Of course the chilies can be Jalapenos or any kind of hot...
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Pressure Cooker Sushi?!? You can do it!
Make super-sticky sushi rice in your pressure cooker in just minutes! While the rice is pressure cooking you can prep the sushi fillings. This video features my son Vittorio...
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Make Ricotta Cheese with the Instant Pot SMART, DUO, ULTRA (or any pot)
Ricotta does not need a pressure cooker- it can be made with any 'ol pot with lots of supervision and stirring - but the automated programs of Instant Pot makes the process soooo much...
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Beet it, just beet it. Beet it!
Beets pack a nutritional punch with high concentration of beta carotene, folic acid and more but cooking them from fresh can take forever and make a bloody mess... but they don't have...
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Make the 7-layer dip from scratch
Here's an amazingly flavorful seven layer dip. I like to serve this dip with just-made re-fried beans - their heat melts the cheese and adds a nice contrast to fresh ingredients on top - but it...
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SPILL the beans! Pressure cook fresh legumes
Fresh borlotti have a green and fresh flavor that no amount of soaking could ever put back into dry. If you happen to see fresh beans at the market grab them and rush home to make...
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Mission Artichoke: Creamy dip from scratch!
This artichoke dip is unique in several ways - beyond being pressure cooked! It's made with fresh artichokes, not marinated hearts, and does not contain a single drop of mayonnaise or cream. ...
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Michael’s No-Stir Cheese Melting Technique – Reader Recipe
A few weeks ago, I stumbled over a new pressure cooker blog. Buried in a recipe for steamed burgers a last-minute addition of a ramekin of cheese really stole the show for me. Michael indulged...
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The Stinking Rose – perfectly roasted garlic in 20 minutes!
Delicious, perfectly "roasted" and caramelized garlic in just 5 minutes under pressure and 5 more under the broiler - not an hour in the oven!
The folks who published Modernist...
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VIDEO! Simply Delicious: Hummus – Pressure Cooked Chickpea Spread
The trick is in the details that can raise your hummus from simply pureed chickpeas to wow! The most important step, of course, is to pressure cook the beans yourself instead of using...
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Prosciutto-wrapped Asparagus Canes
Super easy and fast to make, pressure steaming the prosciutto and the asparagus together give each a more intense flavor! Though asparagus should usually be cooked at low pressure, a quick burst...
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SNAZZY! French “Baked” Eggs
This French classic is usually an egg, in a ramekin baked in the oven for 15 minutes but it only takes 4 minutes in your pressure cooker!
The French tradition of en Cococotte says that you...
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Marbled Chinese Tea Eggs – Faster!
These beautiful hard-boiled eggs are cracked and then simmered for an additional three hours to obtain the beautiful coloring and flavor. But I came up with a new way to do this in just 30...
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CRACKED! Soft, Medium, and Hard Boiled Eggs in the pressure cooker
I would never recommend pressure cooking something unless this cooking method improves the food or recipe in some way. For example, I didn't publish a pressure cooker frittata...
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Modern Venice: Perfectly steamed mussels (Cozze Serenissime)
A unique appetizer that continues cooking right in front of you! The mussels are steamed for one minute in the pressure cooker and served on a bed of radicchio and spinach that wilts in the...
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Pressure Cooker Steamed and Fried Artichoke Blooms – yum!
I swear I made these before seeing Julia Robert's new movie,
"Cook, Eat, Pray""Eat, Pray, Love" - which is full of beautiful food shots when she is in Rome, not far from my house!... -
Pressure Cooker Recipe: Drunken Peas in a Pressure Cooker Pot
Stewed peas are "out" because no one cooks a vegetable until it's brown, mushy and almost irecognizable anymore. We want green, al dente and delicious veggies! Stewing them in beer...
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Italian Chicken Liver Pate’ Spread – pressure cooker recipe
Although the traditional pate' recipe isn't particularly difficult or time consuming, you will love the pressure cooker version which uses a little less butter and is ready in just 10 minutes...
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Pressure Cooked Sweet & Sour Pearl Onion Antipasto
Cipolline Agrodolce Recipe
Sweet and tangy this appetizer can be made days in advance and left to macerate in the sweet and sour sauce to intensify... -
Pressure Cooker Recipe: Insalata di Riso – Italian Rice Salad
Simple, refreshing and wholly Italian, salad should be an addition to summer repertoire. It is called a salad, but it is often served as a meal in a plate - with nothing other than some chilled...
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Polenta Five Ways – Pressure Cooker Recipe & Technique with Variations
Boiled, baked, grilled, fried or even room-temperature, polenta is one of those dishes that is incredibly flexible in it's methods and recipe! You can top it with almost anything...
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Pressure Cooked Spicy Pressure Cooked Eggplant Sauce or Side Dish
If you have given-up cooking eggplant because it takes too long to get the raw flavor out, try this method! With just 5 minutes browning and three minutes under pressure your eggplant is...
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Pressure Cooker Peperonata
Peperonata is not only versatile in it's uses as an accompaniment to meat and fish dishes, it can be used as a rustic sauce for rice, pasta, potatoes, polenta or crostini. Serve it cooled in... -
Pressure Cooked Octopus and Potato Salad – oh yea… it’s good!
Octopus has a bad reputation for being tough and rubbery when cooked at home. However, if you know the secrets to tenderizing it you will be able to make this exotic (outside of Italy, anyway)...
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Pressure Cooked Sicilian Summer Vegetable Medley – Caponatina
Caponatina is a lighter and easier version to make than its cousin Caponata – which requires frying three ingredients separately. With this recipe, you lightly brown all of the vegetables...
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A Pressure Cooker Classic: Steamed Artichokes
Artichokes are the darlings of the pressure cooker's repertoire - tough, fibrous and tricky to get perfectly tender - the pressure cooker turns this seemingly un-approachable vegetable into a...